Abstract
Professor Roland Martin Littlewood was born in 1947. He started his training at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School London, where he obtained his BSc and later graduated MB, BS in 1973. Further studying at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Oxford led to a Diploma In Social Anthropology, obtained in 1979, and a DPhil in Social Anthropology, gained in 1987. He was awarded the MRCPsych In 1978. Since then his impressive career has been marked by equally impressive distinctions, such as the presidency of the Royal Anthropological Institute from 1994–1997. Having reviewed over 200 books, Professor Littlewood is himself the author of four:Pathology and Identity: The Work of Mother Earth In Trinidad(1993) won the Wellcome Medal For Anthropology as Applied to Medicine in 1993. He has also written innumerable scientific, theoretical and review papers and edited three books. Professor Littlewood has recently been elected Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
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Medical School, London, where he obtained his BSc and later graduated MB, BS in 1973
When I went into social anthropology in the 1970s there were very few psychiatrists in Britain who had trained in anthropology - so when I moved from psychiatry into anthropology there was a general sense of it being not quite the saolornt gof tthheinglinoense doifd."w1hreyceairveend't a yloout ofharepmpyarksin psychiatry?' 'Why are you changing your profes sion?' and so on
Anthropology offers the more universalising option of looking at such non-psychotic patterns as being contextual near ritual prac tices, and how they differ from one society to another, and I think that encompasses quite a lot of our work
Summary
Professor Roland Martin Littlewood was born in 1947. He started his training at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Further studying at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Oxford led to a Diploma in Social Anthropology, obtained in 1979, and a DPhil in Social Anthropology, gained in 1987. He was awarded the MRCPsych in 1978. Professor Littlewood is himself the author of four: Pathology and Identity: The Work of Mother Earth in 7rin/ctod(1993) won the Wellcome Medal For Anthropology as Applied to Medicine in 1993. He has written innumerable scientific, theoretical and review papers and edited three books. Anthropology offers the more universalising option of looking at such non-psychotic patterns as being contextual near ritual prac tices, and how they differ from one society to another, and I think that encompasses quite a lot of our work
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